ADELAIDEDRAMATIC

UNIVERSITY

SOCIETY

"TI{E FLIES'Iecn-Pcut Scnbe

IN THE HUT

THURSDAY FRIDAYSATURDAY

MAY 3, 4, 5, l95l

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE was born in Paris in 1905 of mixed Catholic and

Protestant forebears. Orphaned in his earliest years, he was educated by his

grandparents at the Lycee La Rochelle and the Ecole Normale of the University

of Paris, where, it appears, his undergraduate days rvere in no way distinguished.

During the thirties, as a research scholar under the aegis of the Department ofPhilosophy of the University of Paris, he travelled in Germany, where he cameunder the influence of Heidegger's teacher, Husserl, and later he taught Philo-sophy and Classics at the Lycee Janson de Sailly in Paris. In 1939 he wasmobilised, and served as a private in the Army Medical Corps; in 1940 he wascaptured and in 1941 released on medical grounds, whereupon he returned toParis and became a leader of the Resistance Movement.

"THE FLIES," which was first produced in France by Charles Dullin duringthe Occupation, is a splendid example of the philosophic melodrama with whichSartre is giving maturity to the technically clever, but spiritually empty, non-materialistic movement in the French drama, rvhich had its source in the playsof Guillaume Apollinaire, found a spiritual home in the Theatre du vieuxColombier, founded by Jacques Copeau in 1913, and reached its peak in thebrilliant, but bollow, plays of Jean Cocteau.

Of the philosophic core of "THE FLIES" no more necd be said than tlrat_it is admirably expressed in Sartre's explanation of his Existentialist Theories:

"Every object has a being and an existence.A being, that is to say a constant sum ofattributes, and an existence. that is tosay a certain effective presence in theworld. The Existentialist holds that in man-and only in man---existence precedes being."

. The play produced by ...... BRIAN BERGIN

. The sets designed by ...... ...... ...... ...... CHARLES BANNON

The music arranged by ...... ...... JOHN WINSTANLEY

The lighting arranged by ..... ..... ...... ...... GRANT HAI{RY

The stage management by...... ...... ...... ...... TED Ey

The dances arranged by ..... .. ...... O'DELL CROWTHER

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Women of Argos

Orestes

His Tutor

An Idiot Boy

Zevs

An Old Woman

Electra

Clystemnestra

The First Man

The Second Man

A Young Woman

The Crowd

Aegistheus

The High'Priest

The First Soldier

The Second Soldier

The Third Soldier

The Fint Fury

The Furies

. .THE FLIE'S' '(Cast in order of ap,pearance)

LOLA BARRITT, ROSEMARY WOOD,NANCY MURFIN, MARGARET SANDO,IRIS ANDERSON, BARBARA O'CONNELL,

JOAN SHEARD, MIFANWY DAVID,MARIB SIMMONS, MARGARET IVIURFIN

PETER DAWE

:.T;:Tff;WILLIAM JOB

1 . "*H;ff;MAURENE MCNAMARA

DOUG. BUTLER

NEIL LOVETT

JOAN SHEARD

PAULINE DUNSTAN, MARIE SIN,IMONS.IRIS ANDERSON, MARGARET MURFIN,

NANCY MURFIN, MIFANWY DAVID,

JUDITH BARCLAY. LOLA BARRITT,ROSEMARY WOOD, BARBAR*A, O'CONNELL,BRIAN WALKER, GEOFFREY Fi\RMER,HUGH WILLIAMSON

.. .:,"..I'^;ffili:GRAHAM CHINNER

- MICHAEL PRYCE

R. D. ADLAM

- ',o"o ,o**,rr, "J::I1J'TN""TJOAN SHEARD, BARBARA O'CONNELL,ROSEMARY WOOD. PAULINE DUNSTAN

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A.U.D.S. thanks:

O The Myer {mporium (S.A.) Ltd. for the

donation of materials for costume

O Miss Enid Lewis for her co-operation in , 1the matter of Hut bookings.

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O Mr. Grant Harry for the advertising f

photography.

O All those who voluntarily gave theirtime through inter€st in the play.

A.U.D.S. invites:

O Any undergraduate who is interested inany aspect of the theatre to contact ond

' of the members of the AU.D.S. Committee.

a A[ undergraduates to attend thq A=-U.D,S ] ,., --;.r=, .-

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ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY, DRAMATIC SOCIETY

Committee :

President : -BRIAN BERGIN.'

secretary; MAURENE McNAMARA. Treasurer: MARGARET sANDo.

Production Qrganiser: HELEN JoNEs. Publicity Manager: NEIL LovETT:

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